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Hear, hear! I couldn't agree more. 55 New York Only 26 dives, but each one a treasure - Long Island, Antigua, Bermuda, Key Largo, and St Maarten (Hoping to make it to Bonaire this year) No favorite dive shop AOW, Nitrox

Hi all - I'm considering taking my wife and daughter to Cozumel in mid-March for some diving. I've never been before myself, and I have two questions for you all. While I'm sure the answers are on the board somewhere, I haven't found them. So, with apologies in advance for covering old...

---------------------- 1: It would be fun and useful (great for SAR, fun for mapping dive sites and aquacaching). I'd get one if I could afford it... 2: distance and current drift calculations. 3: not long enough to have had any changes happen. 4(a): Not yet (b): an arrow would do for...

I hope this isn't a hijack, but I've found that in the process of trying to develop a frog kick, I've found a variant that seems to work well, but can't define it (or maybe more accurately, don't know what I'm doing). I've asked a couple of instructors what I'm actually doing, but haven't gotten...

My OW course (on Long Island) was $265, IIRC, but I would have gladly paid more to get a more thorough course. As a percentage of what you're going to end up paying for the sport, the cost is minimal, and considering the importance of what you’re learning, it shouldn’t be how you look for a...

Trace, what's the air fare to Utopia? I'd dive with any of those folks, and I didn't see any instructors whose last job was at Burger King and who were certified last month after 100 warm water dives with a DM guiding them and an instructor watching their back! I'm particularly interested in...

Looks like a good list, but I'd add that I try to practice as many of the skills you mention as possible in midwater, so as to be able to try to maintain neutral buoyancy while executing them. I got enough practice kneeling on the bottom in OW class.

Of course, there's a lot more to diving than push-ups, but you're getting way more class time (both wet and dry) than many. I had four CW dives (2-2.5 hrs each), home study with basic in-class review of knowledge review quizzes, and four cert dives in two days over a weekend (the cert dives were...

"Argonaut" - name of Mike Nelson's boat in "Sea Hunt" or just "Sea Hunt" (which takes care of the divers and the spearfishermen.

Peter, it's not my specialty, but as I understand it, the O2 in CO2 isn't "new", it comes from the already existing supply of O2. It required work to fix it into a CO2 molecule (like respiration or combustion), and it will require more work to make it available as O2 again (photosynthesis/plant...

Bob, I'd bet that report was referring to an annual outflow of just petroleum pollution equivalent to the Exxon Valdez, with other non-point-source pollutants added on top of that load. Just the amount of oil washed off our roads into the sea by each good rainstorm (something I gather you guys...

Darnold9999, my apologies - my post was unintentionally dismissive in tone. It does sound like a fascinating dive, and one that would certainly give me a reason to discard a non-mandatory safety stop. (I think it must also be among the strongest navigable saltwater currents in the world, but I...

Nine knots??!?! :dropmouth Where were you diving, in the spillway of a dam?:popcorn:

Very interesting thread, and thanks to all for thoughtful replies. I'm the parent of an 11-year-old girl who is in the process of getting certified (her mother and I are only just certified ourselves), and while I'm squarely on the side of those who believe in letting their children take...

I haven't been , but I'm jealous! As Brian said, search here, and you'll find a wealth of info. Enjoy your trip.

Sorry, but I don't see any evidence for that certainty. It may well improve the odds, but it seems to me that a kid who can cover a 1/4 mile in under nine minutes, while maybe not a candidate for the Junior Olympics, is entirely capable as a swimmer of managing the swimming elements of diving...

Skull, your point about land generated pollution is interesting, but that sort of pollution doesn't usually wait to get to 165' before it starts killing things, and according to the LA Times article, that's where the die-offs are happening and the anoxic water is to be found. Runoff pollution...

Hi Serenissima - I don't know whether you still are looking for dive buddies, and we won't be there until near the end of your stay, but my wife and I might be able to buddy with you a couple of times if you like. I know you said this was your first shore diving, but what other experience...

Tom, we'll be at the Plaza Resort. Planning on picking up BSDME when we get there, and will be mostly shore diving (we may do a boat trip or two as well, but don't know yet). Looks like we'll overlap by a few days. Shall we meet for a beer (or a dive)?

Tim, with due respect, I think the evidence supporting anthropogenic global warming is considerably better than was the evidence supporting WMD in Iraq. Also, as weird as it sounds, the consequences of being wrong and doing nothing may well be appreciably worse. If it came to our going to war to...